"True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together."
"One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement."
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Source: Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins
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